Zach Lavine, the 2015 NBA dunk contest winner, will be coming to town on May 5 to sign autographs and do a meet and greet with fans.

You can catch Zach at the YMCA on Alden Street from 12 noon to 3:00 pm.

In case you missed it, Zach was recently featured in the NBA dunk contest as one of the main contestants. Not only that, he went on to win the contest during the All Star Weekend by performing what he called the “Space Jam dunk”.

Many people have tried to replicate Zach’s success in the vertical jump department. Some have claimed that he has a 50 inch vertical. After seeing his head nearly touch the rim it wouldn’t surprise us!

“Zach is truly a site to behold. His athletic ability is far beyond was most people have. His work ethic and pursuit of his career in the NBA has given him special abilities that most people only dream of.”

You may have seen in the news recently that OkCupid has been caught experimenting on its users recently. If you recall, Facebook ran into a similar issue just a few months ago where it was accused of running emotional experiments on its users.

Needless to say, social media sites are taking some serious heat from the public in recent months.

OkCupid recently admitted that it also runs experiments on its users. One of the site’s founders, Chris Rudder, wrote in his company blog to explain that these experiments were done to help determine how to build the site.

The goal of the engineers is to find the optimal way to link people together. I’m not sure why engineers would be running social experiments…that seems like something that a psychologist would be more qualified to do.

Chris went on to explain a bit more detail about what had been done. In one case, text would be hidden from profiles to obscure certain information about users.

In another, users who thought that they had found a good match were later told that they were not actually a strong match for each other.

As you can imagine, this begins to toy with people’s emotions and could potentially lead to permanent emotional issues.

Lots of people took to Twitter to voice their opinion about the issues. Not too many people agreed with OkCupid’s actions.

The Huffington Post article on the issue went in to further detail about one of the experiments run on the site. For example, one test in particular was used to find out whether looks really mattered. As you might expect, they do.

The test began by asking users to rate each other based on both personality and looks. The OkCupid team would then hide the test of the member profiles so that only photos would show. The result? Members of the site rated each other evenly between the profile and non-profile versions, showing that even a great profile can’t overcome bad looks.

If you’re concerned about his you might just think about going the old fashioned route and learning how to get a date without the internet. Go out a meet some people! It’s a good thing to do once in a while. You can learn more about this at http://www.ilwu10.org/ .

What do you think? Should sites like OkC be allowed to run these types of experiments? If you are a member, how did you react to this news?

As you may have noticed, 1400 WOND (or the “wan” as we call it) has been off the air for a while. But have no fear! We are making a return and should be up and running here shortly.

In the meantime, we will update this site on a regular basis as mush as we can. We are a bunch of busy beavers here at the station, so keep this in mind if you don’t hear from us for a while.

We’ve switched up our format a bit to be sort of a catchall news radio. In our past life we focused more on music and concerts, but we will be switching to more of a news type station from now on.

This will be similar in a way to stations like NPR in that we will talk about a bunch of different topics.

Hope this doesn’t aggravate our listeners too much, but it’s always fun to take different routes with this sort of stuff.

If you’re interested you can find out more about us by searching some of our wikipedia pages. We should still be showing up for some of those…we hope!

We will be opening up a forum for people to post ideas on what they want to hear. This should give our community a voice and the ability to give input on what happens on the show. Keep an eye out for that.

We have a cool lineup of people set to come on the show in the near future, so get excited!

Just a friendly PSA that Home Depot in Ann Arbor, MI will be hosting a home painting class for anyone interested on October 7, 2017 at 2:00 PM.

The class will be focusing on surface prep and applying paint, primer, and finishing up around wood trims and other more advanced painting topics.

If you’re like me and you’re not much of a handy-man…or woman…you may want to think about having a professional teach you how to do this stuff.

We spoke to Rob who is owns a local painting company, and he agrees that this is a great idea for those of you just starting out. Rob mentioned that you can really get yourself into a tough spot if you don’t plan ahead properly before you a paint a room.

Choosing the right pain, getting the right tape, mixing, matching, sanding, smoothing…all of this stuff can be a bit daunting if you’re not ready for it.

As always, if you’ve got the funds to do it you can just hire someone as well. Totally up to you!

You’ve in all likelihood seen an increasing number of ads encouraging this new thing you have never heard of before: HD Radio. They say you can hear “undiscovered content” and digital quality sound. You almost certainly even heard the best section of the whole ad, “No subscription fee!”

I would like to help you learn a bit about HD Radio. I’ll try and make sure it stays simple so as to giving you all the info that you need with as little technical lingo as potential.

High definition isn’t High Definition

To begin with, when you have not learned of it and you most likely know of HDTV, I am guessing you live in a cavern. HD Radio really isn’t something similar as HDTV. The high definition in HDTV stands for High Definition. Don’t mistake this as the same in HD Radio because high definition in this particular context means Hybrid Digital.

Yet, it provides radio transmission that is considerably better than conventional radio signals. Some HD radio stations transmit 5.1 Surround Sound digital audio signals, letting you appreciate authentic concert-like encounter. You may be certain that more stations will choose this particular way of transmission later on.

Digital and Sub-Stations

HD Radio enables digital information to be air by various radio stations through the FM or AM frequencies. In addition, these digital transmissions might be sent on numerous sub-channels, enabling about three stations per frequency. This would triple the number of stations you may possibly listen to on HD Radio. What would it look like on the screen, you inquire?

Typically, conventional AM/FM radios would show the following: FM 104.7

On HD Radios, it’d show as: FM 104.7 HD-1 or 104.7 HD2 (with each high definition-X suggesting a sub-station)

As of 2007, the signal quality is reported to be close to CD-quality sound on the FM stations, which is an enormous jump in the radio business. Nevertheless, it’s exceedingly improbable for AM frequencies to experience this development since a considerably smaller band is operated on by the AM. Think of it as a hose. A smaller garden hose can barely deliver as much water as the hose of the fire department; and sadly, AM is that smaller garden hose.

Progress in Digital Technology

There were criticisms and reports in the first phases of HD Radio (2006) of noise and static when tuning in to these high definition stations. But, the technology has really advanced within the past two years and has enhanced isolation and signal quality. Do not worry about quality- loss much unless you are on the AM stations.

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